hello, everyone. thank you for joining me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. we are more than 500 days away from election day 2020. right now, ten of the 23 democratic presidential candidates are on the campaign trail hoping to stand out from the competition. keep in mind, this isn't half the total number of democrats running. but, the big focus today will be in pennsylvania. democratic front-runner, joe biden will hold his campaign kick off rally in philadelphia in just a few hours. biden's campaign will be based there. the former vice president is a pennsylvania native and is hoping to turn his birth state blue. cnn is at the rally location.

people are starting to gather there. what might be the message from biden today? >> reporter: well, fred, joe biden's message is going to boil down to unity and how he thinks he can unify the country. we got a look at excerpts from the speech. i want to read you a line from what he is going to say. biden is going to say, if the american people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand and hard heart to demonize the opponent and hay tresz, they don't need me. they have a president who does just that. biden will say, i am running to offer our country, democratses, republicans and independents a different path. biden's official kick off rally here in philadelphia today wraps up a three-week tour since he became an official candidate. the first event was held in pittsburgh, across the other side of the state. it shows how much of an emphasis

they are going to place here in pennsylvania. he was born in scranton and served in delaware as a senator for 36 years. biden and his team believe that the former vice president can appeal to some of the working class voters in the state who maybe voted for president trump the last time around. this is a state president trump won in 2016 and was central to his victory. biden sees a possible opening here. next week, biden is going to hit the road again. he is heading to tennessee and florida for fund-raisers. the following week in houston and dallas, texas. pretty soon, you are going to see biden start to roll out some policies, trying to put his platform in front of the american people. he says a major speech on climate change is coming next month. fred? >> thank you so much from philadelphia. we'll check back with you. >> among the folks on the trail this weekend, bernie sanders is on a four-state tour of the south. sanders is trying to show

support after a drop in the polls after biden dropped the race. he is hoping to make a splash rolling out policieses, including a massive investment in education. >> billionaires do not need more tax breaks. the children of our country need quality education. my plan addresses the serious crisis in our educational system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public schools. make sure we attract the best and brightest young people to become teachers. reestablish a positive learning environment for children in our k-12 schools. >> cnn's ryan nobles is covering sanders in orangeberg, south carolina where he spoke. ryan, what can you tell us about his plan, how this new education plan was even received there.

>> reporter: it was received well here in south carolina, in part because it specifically directed african-american voters who make up a significant portion of the votes in south carolina. this is a comprehensive plan that touches on a number of areas, ten points in particular. when talking about the african-american community, this is the plan in honor of the brown versus board of education and the desegregated pools. he is going to use the federal government to enforce that standard and make sure that public schools are desegregated. that is part of it. he called for a ban on for profit charter schools and a $60,000 floor for teachers across the board and invest $5 billion in after school and summer school programs. he also wanlts to implement a plan to allow for universal free

school meals across the board. there's a lot packed into the plan, fred. it will likely be expensive. he didn't get into the details of how to pay for it. in the soundbyte played, he alluded to what he may do, that's roll back the tax cuts implemented to pay for it. fred? >> for a bit, it was sanders who was, you know, leading the democratic, you know, contingents for the white house. now, you know, he slid, you know, just a bit because of biden being in. so, is sanders indicating some kind of change in strategy on the trail? >> you know, fred, this is something i talked to sanders and his aides about on a regular basis. they insist they are not paying close attention to the fluctuation in polls and expected joe biden was going to come in with a ton of momentum and catapult him to the top of the hill.

they are playing a long game here. the difference between bernie sanders and the vast field of democratic nominees is that he is going to be well funded for a significant period of time. he's raised close to $20 million already. they continue to take in online donations on a regular basis. they are in for the long haul. they are not going to overreact to a drop in the polls because they are going to be here for a long time to come. ryan nobles in orangeberg, south carolina. we head to philadelphia in a moment. another note, bernie sanders isn't the only one in the south, another 2020 candidate is also in south carolina. andrew yang tweeting this photo of the waffle house with a caption, back in the south. with me now is democratic senator chris coons of delaware on the judiciary committees. senator, good to see you. coming to us from philadelphia there. >> we have a gorgeous day here

in philadelphia for joe biden's announcement speech. my wife and i got here from delaware. i'm blessed to be the successor of joe biden. what i'm excited about is to hear his message today. this is a community that knows joe, knows how whole heartedly optimistic he is about the american people and what we can do together. his announcement video and how president trump divided the country has taken us to a place where our international standing has gone down and the divisions are in our part. it reminds me the joe i know is a great fighter for america, somebody who helps represent us bravely and successfully. someone who understands what it's going to stake to get the middle class back and growing and back on the world stage. >> senator, why are you and joe biden, you know, equally

confident that biden can turn pennsylvania blue again after hillary clinton lost that state to donald trump. >> i think joe biden is going to fight hard for pennsylvania. early polls show him up by double digits against donald trump in head-to-head match ups. pennsylvania knows joe and joe knows pennsylvania. my wife is from pennsylvania. it's a state with a long and proud history, labor movement, middle class. joe is going to contest the state from end-to-end. if you haven't worked a coffee shop, union hall or fire station with joe biden, you haven't seen someone who can really listen and connect to folks and have reason to be angry with the way things have gone and need hope and someone who can show them a positive path forward. i'm convinced joe biden is not going to win pennsylvania in the primary, but the general.

>> senator coons, he is one of 28 candidates. 22 in the democratic field. >> 23, 24, yes. >> you name it. we have women. we have minority candidates in the field there. how does joe biden compete with that kind of diversity and appeal to, you know, the younger voter, so many of whom have been turned off by the process, but maybe voting for the first time? >> joe is actually very popular with younger voters, partly because they know him in his service with the obama-biden administration, the ways the obama-biden administration fought for lgbq rights and concerns about climate change through the paris agreement and the recovery act. they know the ways in which the obama-biden administration had a record of making it stronger, safer and more prosperous at

home. they respect the fact he is optimistic. he brings his whole heart to the work and spent life as a servant to the public and whose character and capabilities and energy and attitude they respect. he can bring us together. when i have been talking to primary voters in delaware and around the country, that's what i hear they are looking for. >> in at least one instance this week, there were a few discussions about kamala harris, possible vice president for biden. take a look at one of the instances in which ha happened? >> i think that joe biden would be a great running meat. as vice president, he's proven he knows how to do the job. >> so, how is that being deciphered by joe biden? >> well, frankly, i think it's premature to talk about who might or might not be a running mate for which of the candidates. at this point in the primary process, it's important the american people get a look at the candidates in the field.

one of the reasons i think joe biden is well respected is because of how well he has served our public and country and over so many decades. he's someone whose got a record to run on. in the end, i think we'll be asking the question, who will be the best running mate for joe biden. i respect that colleague harris said it's early for us to have that conversation. she might make as good a running mate for vice president as she would for him. that's a great phrase on her part. it's so early in the process. polls will come and go. what matters, as the average american gets to know the other candidates, they will know more deeply why they want joe biden as president. >> senator, put your foreign relations committee hat on. you know, as we look at tensions between the u.s. and iran, you know, intensifying now when the u.s. moved that carrier strike

group to the region, the trump administration, the pentagon drew up a plan to spend 120,000 troops to the middle east. the president saying maybe it will be more. what concerns do you have about how those messages were conveyed as of recent? >> i'm concerned on several levels. most directly that there's been very little consultation with congress. republicans and democrats in the senate said the president seems to be sliding toward an ill conceived conflict with iran without consulting congress and forced to articulate a strategy. we did pass and the president signed into law a provision that says the president owes us a strategy on iran. if we end up in a conflict with iran, we will be doing it largely alone. most of the vital allies are questioning the evidence and the judgment that's leading up to the escalation of conflict with

iran. one of the most important things the obama-biden did was put iran's nuclear weapons in a box. maybe not a perfect box or a permanent box, but at least a decade. the nuclear weapons program of iran on ice. president trump ripped that agreement up and distanced us from some of our foreign allies. this is one of many reasons i think the average american looks at the current station in the world and says they would welcome the leadership of former vice president, joe biden. >> president trump said he does not want a war. was that an attempt and successful to cool things down or a little, you know, too late? >> well, one of the challenges with president trump, who i'll remind you is the first president with no previous military or elected experience is that he ran on being an unconventional president. he's outperformed in that

category. we will pick a fight in a certain context like with kim jong-un and using aggressive rhetoric, then just as abruptly do a 18 o and talk about kim being his close friend and somebody he deeply respects. president trump did, i think, reduce some of the pressure this weekend by saying he doesn't want a war with iran. but it was just 48 hours ago that he and his senior administration officials were trumpeting the deployment of bombers, missile carriers to the persian gulf an removal of non-essential personnel from iraq. we don't know what the strategy is, what the direction is, until we see the latest tweet from president trump. that doesn't strike me as a responsible way to lead in foreign policy and national security. chris coons, thank you so much, at the rally to get under way in 45 minutes there for joe biden.

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a source says tensions erupted after trump officials demanded the irish prime minister host a meeting at trump's golf course. cnn's sarah westwood is following developments from the white house. sarah, what exactly is going on now? >> reporter: well, fred, the tensions between the planning teams for ireland and the u.s. are threatening to derail the trip to ireland in the beginning of june. president trump, according to sources, wants to meet the irish prime minister at his golf property in ireland. the irish side thinks that's improper and they have extended a compromise to the white house. that's that the president meet at a nearby venue, a castle. it's somewhere where the then irish prime minister met president george w. bush in

2004. and potentially have a breakfast with the president at his golf resort the next day. the white house has not yet accepted that offer. here is something else, the irish government believes protocol should be at a venue of their choosing, not a hotel owned by trump. just for context, this would come during the president's upcoming visit to great britain and france for the 75th anniversary of "d" day if the president does this stint in ireland, it would last two nights. the irish foreign minister said it's in the planning stages. a source tells cnn, this is a potentially difficult situation for the irish prime minister because trump is very unpopular in ireland. >> sarah westwood, thank you so much for that. speaking of ireland, a bit of a subject change, you might

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right now, 35 minutes or so away from the scheduled joe biden kick off rally in philadelphia. we'll take you there live. ten out of the 23 democratic candidates are on the campaign trail, hoping to set themselves apart from the competition. the competition is tense. 23 democratic candidates hoping to take on trump in the 2020 election. let's discuss this with national political reporter for "the new york times," white house reporter for "the washington post." good to see you both. you first. why so many candidates.

wouldn't this hurt the democrats chances by this field being so crowded and a few others that want to jump in, too. >> well, the one answer is, why not? we saw a lot of democrats are thinking that they saw the success of president trump in the 2016 primary field, how he was able to rise above 15 or 16 other candidates. after 2016, when it seemed hillary clinton was the party's almost predetermined nominee, i think the democrats really wanted a more diverse, more robust primary this time around. but, the vast field does make it harder for any one candidate to breakthrough, which is part of the reason why vice president biden, even though there was speculation he would face a lot of questions and perhaps he's been able to have a smooth rollout and keep at the top so far. i think you are going to see, despite the attempts by other

democratic candidates to chip away at the lead, it hasn't taken foot yet. it's early in the race. that's going to be a struggle for the democrats going forward. >> let's take a look at the latest poll numbers from fox news. biden increasing his lead. sanders falling some, but still maintaining double digits. so, you know, how does he maintain that momentum? talking about biden. >> yeah, former vice president, biden, has, of course, enjoyed a healthy lead in the polling of the democratic race. that comes from a couple places. that comes from the familiarity folks have with him after spending eight years in the white house and robust support from particularly black voters that play a critical role as the primary swings toward the south. it's going to be a challenge for other democratic candidates to rest those communities from them. you have seen people try to

atack the former vice president's record, particularly on issues of criminal justice, his involvement with clarence thomas hearings. it's going to have to be more than that. the voters are coming not because they love his record, but the perception he can win and is best suited to defeat president trump. they are going to have to make it a primary about ideals and change, rather than the question of electability. if that is centered around that and the gender notions around that, it's good news for joe biden. >> we should point out, overall, this is a historic democratic party. at least the field of candidacy, so diverse, yet, at the same time, you still see, you know, at the top, two white men. so, you know, should they remain confident? >> i think, again, a lot of the -- first of all, polls are early. we are out 500 days until the

general election and far out from the first democratic nominated contest. a lot of the early lead comes from the universally named id that the former vice president and senator sanders enjoys with the previous national platforms. i think that you are going to have to have more democratic candidates doing whatever they can to contract and show voters why they are the better option to lead the democratic party and to take on trump at this moment. i think you are already seeing, from the moment that the vice president announced he was running, you saw candidates trying to sharpen their differences and make that contrast with the former vice president on policy. you heard elizabeth warren saying i was on -- he was on the side of credit card companies, i was not, making that contrast when it comes to financial policy. bernie sanders talked a lot about biden's support for nafta

and the tpc. kamala harry talking about the crime bill. you are going to have more contrast in policy going forward as, again, democrats try to disting with wish themselves from the front-runner. >> do you see that happening sooner rather than later? we saw that with the republican field when there were 17 during 2016. they were going for the jugular at each other and here we are seeing kind of a maybe it's a bit more calculated chipping away of each other. >> yeah, democrats have kind of pledged to make this a collegial and they are more willing to attack the former vice president on his record. that's going to shift as the debates happen and we get through the summer as more voters tune in. if you see the former vice

president maintaining the lead on top of polling, i'm positive the democratic candidates will come out more forcefully and clearly around them. they are ideological differences. this isn't a matter of who is best suited. they will rally around whoever is the nominee. there are folks who truly believe that four years of vice president biden would squash the progressive energy that's so robust. they are personal divides that come out more clearly over the next couple months if they are maintaining that healthy advantage. >> good to see you both. appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, amid protest, missouri is now the fourth state this year to pass tough anti-abortion legislation. all it needs is now the governor's signature. how serious is the threat to roe v. wade? -♪ just like any other family

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the governor says he will sign the bill. this, coming days after alabama lawmakers passed one of the country's most restrictive abortion bills into law. that law makes no exceptions for rape or incest, and includes a provision that could send a doctor to prison for up to 99 years for performing an abortion and ten years for attempting it. supporters of the bills admit they are designed to get the cases before the u.s. supreme court in hopes of overturning roe v. wade. the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. melissa marie is a professor at nyu. we have a supreme court reporter. good to see you. melissa, most of the bills will be challenged in lower courts before becoming law. is there a feeling of how those courts might be stacked up to rule? >> under existing supreme court

precedent, these laws are obviously unconstitutional because they basically constitute a previability ban. so, lower courts, if they are following the supreme court's precedent should strike down the laws. >> the supreme court has a conservative make up and anti-abortion supporters are pushing bills, hoping to overturn roe v. wade. listen to the two newest conservative members of the court and what they had to say during confirmation hearings. >> the supreme court upheld in roe versus wade a fetus is not a person for purposes of the 14th amendment. the book explains that. >> do you accept that? >> that's the law of the land. i accept the law of the land, senator, yes. >> it is an important precedent of the court. i mean roe v. wade then reaffirm

many times casey is precedent upon precedent, this is an important factor. >> how much concern or worry is there that the justice's said that for confirmation, but their feelings might be different when it comes down to ruling or, you know, ruling on any challenges that come before them? >> fred, it's interesting. most every judge at this confirmation hearing or her confirmation hearing says previous decisions are settled law. the thing is, once they get on the supreme court, they can get a case and they can look at that law and say, well, things have changed now. we need to overturn this case. just last week, in a case that had nothing to do with abortion, the five conservatives on this court, they overturned precedent that was some 40 years old,

right? settled law. in decent, justice stephen briar and other liberals called them out on this. look, law is based on these precedents. that's where the stability of the law comes. you are coming in and wiping away something that had been on the books for some 40 years. then, briar took it is step further. in making the argument, referred to abortion precedent. clearly, the justice's here are sending a signal to the conservatives, look, we are watching you unprecedent. that brings up the question of the newest justice, cavanagh. row is precedent. how is he going to rule on the cases? we know as a lower court judge, he decented when colleagues cleared the way for an abortion for an undocumented teen. we know a few weeks ago, the supreme court, by 5-4, decided to put on hold a louisiana law

and he decented. everybody is sort of waiting to see, how will brett kavanaugh, who took the seat of justice anthony kennedy look at the laws? >> melissa, what are your concerns when you look at the landscape of the justices, including the newest two? >> i testified against justice brett kavanaugh and to his record on abortion, which is sincere skepticism for roe versus wade. i point to chief justice, john roberts who during the 2005 confirmation respects roe as precedent. in 2016, when they heard the last abortion case, roberts sided with the conservatives on the court. the only thing we need to think about now is whether going forward, chief justice rop roberts is more of an institutionist and prioritize the concerns over the interests in legislating abortion out of

exist tense. >> what do you see is significant about the timing here and these latest bills, you know, whether it be georgia, alabama, missouri, and the fact that the president has touted great success in appointing conservative judges in lower courts? do you see something to the timing of this kind of, these kind of legislation and the president, what he believes is a victory in stacking so many lower courts with conservative judges? >> absolutely. look at the alabama law. that goes directly against precedent. it punishes the doctors and there's no exception for rape or incest. these states know that laws like that really, that go directly like that are likely to be overturned by the lower courts,

the ones that are a direct challenge to roe. they are emboldened by the fact that president trump said, at one point, he wanted to put pro-life judges on the bench. they are emboldened by they have gorsuch and kavanaugh. one thing they don't talk about is the fact that in the last two years, president trump really transformed how the lower courts will look at it, how many nominees he's put on the lower court. they are going to look at this. the supreme court may not get a case like alabama or may not want to immediately overturn roe v. wade, but there are other cases in front of them. for instance, they are looking at an indiana law. this indiana law says that you have to have an ultrasound at least 18 hours before the procedure. indiana says, look, this gives the woman the chance to reflect

upon her decision. the other side says, these laws aren't medically necessary and what's going to happen is that you are going to chip away at the right to a woman having an abortion. >> melissa, final thought on that? >> the one thing that president trump has been successful in doing is appointing judges to the lower court. he appointed the 100th judge to the courts. again, that changes the climate and emboldened anti-abortions in the countries and the states where we are seeing the restrictive legislations pop up. they are places where we have seen a shift in the composition of intermediate and appellate courts. >> we'll leave it there for now. thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up next, the iranian foreign minister says there will be no war. it comes as the united states issues warnings about the persian gulf. this time for commercial airliners.

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the u.s. and iran, iran's foreign minister says there will be, quote, no war. foreign minister zarif made the comments during a visit to beijing saying iran is not looking for a war and no one is under the illusion to fight. faa issued warnings for commercial airliners flying above the persian gulf. they warned commercial flights a possible risk of miscalculation. samantha, former senior adviser to the national security council and cnn national security analyst with me now. good to see you, sam. how come commercial flight warnings of that nature? >> fred, even if the president's temper cooled, tlets have not. the faa warning is one indication that there are a mere yad of threats affecting u.s. interests in the air, on land

and at sea. the warning is considered in the context of history with iran. forces shot down an iranian aircraft so the faa is going to be overcautious in this region as elsewhere. they issued a similar warning in september, 2018. this is enhanced threat recording, coming at a time lloyds of london and others issued warnings with commercial vessels at sea. saudi ships were sabotaged and on land, increased threat reporting on assetses. we drew down on the embassy and consulates. they took action today as well to draw down personnel. exxon mobile is removing stock. across the vectors, air,land and sea, there's enhanced threat reporting despite the fact president trump decided to dial

down his rhetoric. >> and the president saying he doesn't want war. did that assist in potentially, you know, dialling down or at least cooling tensions? >> reporter: actions have consequences on the campaign trail and as president. he woke up on the different side of the bed a few days ago. the president's actions led us to this point. it didn't happen by accident. by withdrawaling from the iran deal, he knew he would be putting more pressure on iran. they designated them as a foreign terrorist organization, he was warned this would increase threats to assets on the ground. when president trump is personally engaged in a war of words with the iranians and a warfare against the regime, he led us to this place. he decided he does not want to go to war, thank goodness, the policy team has to play catch up and figure out how to dial down tensions. >> samantha, we'll levitt there for now.

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